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Awards and Grants

Every year the Department recognizes exceptional Ph.D. student accomplishments by awarding two Daicar-Bata Prizes. Each recipient receives $2,500 and a certificate of recognition:

  • Daicar-Bata Prize  for the best research paper in a Physics or Astronomy peer reviewed  journal published during the current academic year,
  • Daicar-Bata Prize for the highest grade point average in Physics and Astronomy courses at the end of the student's 6th semester in the program.

Past recipients and current rules of the competition are posted on the Awards page.

The Office of Graduate and Professional Education awards the annual Theodore Wolf Prize  in the Physical and Life Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Biological Sciences, Geology, Marine Studies, Climatology and Agricultural Sciences) for the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation. The award carries a check for $1,000 and a certificate of recognition.

Past winners of the Theodore Wolf Prize from the Department of Physics and Astronomy:

  • 2007 - V. Nefer Senoguz, Aspects of Inflationary Models and Unification; Adviser: Qaisar Shafi. 
  • 2004 - Alston Jude Misquitta, A Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory Based on Density Functional Description of Monomers; Adviser: Krzysztof Szalewicz. 

University provides various small grants (for travel, etc.) to graduate students.